Gluing-on false eyelashes with cyanoacrylate (CA) adhesive – like say, Superglue™ – is widely regarded as a very bad idea. However, in the case that that one’s eyelids do get superglued™ together, and one presents oneself at a hospital casualty department, what can medics do to remove the glue? In 2008, a US-based research team investigated […]
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“A psychoanalytic analysis of the superglue phenomenon” – in new book ‘Perspectives on Everyday Life’
In general, we don’t tend to think all that much about everyday things like, say, suitcases, milk, or alarm clocks. But fortunately, some do take the trouble to do so, and then write about it. Take for instance Arthur Asa Berger, who is Professor Emeritus in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State […]
The effects of artificial bird beak extensions – (new study)
If one were to superglue an artificial beak extension [see diagram] onto the bills of pigeons and crows, which of the species would best adapt? Answers are to be found in a new experimental study from Hiroshi Matsui (Department of Psychology, Keio University, Japan) and Ei-Ichi Izawa (Japan Society of Promotion for Sciences, Tokyo). And […]
Ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate in the auditory meatus
“The ability of superglue (a cyanoacrylate adhesive) to bond strongly and quickly to skin presents considerable problems when it is inserted into the ear.“ Thankfully, this is a relatively rare occurrence, but nonetheless Mr. Ricardo Persaud, BTEC HNC, MB BS (Lond), MPHIL, MSB, CBIOL, DOHNS, MRCS (Gen Surg), FRCS (ORL-HNS) (then at the Department of […]
Icky: Superglue + eye
You may wish you had closed both eyes before you saw mention of this medical report about a patient who closed one eye. The monograph is: “Inadvertent Application of Superglue as Eye Ointment,” A. Mandal, D. Imran, and M.W. Erdmann, Irish Medical Journal, vol. 96, no. 10, 2003, pp. 310–1. [AIR 16:2]